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Arsenic Lullaby

    (Silent, 1998-2004)
™ and ©1998 a. silent comics

A one-man show created by writer/artist Douglas Paszkiewicz, this anthology presents six stories distinquished from each other only in the details.

A pair of U.S. Census Bureau workers go to murderous extremes to keep the numbers accurate; a snowman refuses to give way to the reality of spring; a winged demon somehow ends up in a television commercial; a bodiless head is envious of his wife; and a cook must deal with finicky customers.

There’s not a lot of story in any of the shorts, and none contain enough depth to even pass as weak satire. In all, the book reads like one bleak bar story after another, which when combined with the raw art, grows tiresome. Paszkiewicz’ decision to take two of the stories and split them in half, with part one early on and part two later, is inexplicable and distracting.
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  • 1
    #1
    Dec 1998
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    7 copies from $8.95
  • 2
    #2
    Mar 1999
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    4 copies from $7.95
  • 3
    #3
    May 1999
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    6 copies from $9.99
  • 4
    #4
    Jul 1999
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    3 copies from $34.98
  • 5
    #5
    Sep 1999
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    5 copies from $7.95
  • 6
    #6
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    1 copy for $39.95
  • 7
    #7
    Jan 2000
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    2 copies from $7.95
  • 8
    #8
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    2 copies from $3.95
  • 9
    #9
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    2 copies from $3.98
  • 10
    #10
    May 2001
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    1 copy for $14.95
  • 11
    #11
    Jun 2001
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    2 copies from $1.25
  • 12
    #12
    Jul 2001
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    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    2 copies from $7.98
  • 13
    #13
    No number on cover
    Jan 2002
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    Jan/Feb issue
    2 copies from $12.98
  • 14
    #14
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    1 copy for $49.95
  • 15
    #15
    Cover: $2.65
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    ca. 2004
    2 copies from $9.95
  • 16
    #16
    Cover: $2.65
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    ca. 2004
    2 copies from $7.95
  • 17
    #17
    Cover: $2.85
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    3 copies from $19.95
  • Xmas 1
    Christmas Special #1
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Douglas Paszkiewicz  ·  A: Douglas Paszkiewicz
    ca. 2000
    2 copies from $12.98